THE GIRAFFE AT WINDSOR 259 
The young Giraffe, at Windsor, was a 
female; and after growing eighteen inches 
from the time of its arrival, measured thir- 
teen feet in all. When she first arrived, she 
was exceedingly playful, and perfectly harm- 
less. Neither her figure nor her coat agreed 
exactly with the common descriptions ;_ but 
this might happen because she was young 
and a female; and the spots appear always 
to differ in different varieties or ages, or 
with the sex. Her back was straight, or con- 
vex, like the back of the Guanaco in the 
Zoological Garden, and therefore wholly 
without the deformity, or at least the sin- 
gularity of the form, by which, still more 
than by any thing else, the Giraffe is distin- 
guished from all other animals. 
BEAVER-HOUSE AND POND. 
BEAVERS IN ANCIENT BRITAIN.—BEAVER-HOUSE IN 
THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—BEAVER-HOUSES BUILT 
BY BEAVERS.—TAME BEAVERS.—FOOD OF BEAVERS. 
BEAVERS, though now brought here from 
adistant country, were ancient inhabitants 
of these islands. Many historical traces of 
